M

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Character
Customary name: mu
Represents: m

Variants and attestation

Transliteration Sinistroverse Dextroverse
  Glyph Number Glyph Number
M M.png 28 Md.png 8
M2 M2.png 0 M2d.png 0


Raetic Mu appears consistently with three rather than four bars (addM1 s, as prevalent in Etruscan, Venetic and Lepontic). This characteristic, unifying the Sanzeno and Magrè alphabets, connects the Raetic script with the Venetic alphabet of Vicenza (see Script), though three-barred Mu also appears in the Lugano corpus (see LexLep). Mu is never attested in inverted form, but the inverted variant is retained as a possibility to parallel (rare) inverted Nu.

Bibliography

Lexicon Leponticum David Stifter, Martin Braun, Michela Vignoli et al., Lexicon Leponticum. URL: http://www.univie.ac.at/lexlep/